Isabella Quarantotti

Isabella Quarantotti (1 March 1921 – 18 February 2005) was an Italian writer, translator and playwright.

Life and career Born in Chieti into a wealthy family, Quarantotti was orphaned at a young age and grew up with her grandparents.

In 1941, Quarantotti married geologist Felice Ippolito, with whom had a daughter, Angelica, who later became an actress. Shortly afterward, their marriage was annulled, and in 1946, Quarantotti started a relationship with English poet Alexander Ronald Smith, whom she married in 1955. She was also a television writer, a screenwriter, a stage director, and a literary critic, and in her later years she ran a theatre company consisting of inmates in the Rebibbia prison.